Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Swami Ramsukhdasji Maharaj and Geeta Press Gorakhpur are well known names in spiritual world of India. Many kathakars are using their literature.

After two weeks inservice training at LBSNAA Mussoorie, I was fortunate to meet Swamiji and had Satsang with him during my short stay in Rishikesh in 2002. He was around 96 years old. He told me some interesting things. He told me to target Goal directly and not to waste time in finding reasonings. He told that he has wasted 72 years of his life in interpreting Geeta, Upanishads, Niti Shashtras, etc but at the end realised that if he had believed in the beginning the great saying of Saints, he could have driven in the highway from the beginning. If everybody saying this is river Ganga, then instead of accepting it and having holy bath in it, why should one waste time in searching, why it is called Ganga?

There are two compartments: Jad (life less) and Chetan (live). Our physical body, three bodies (gross, subtle, causal), five coverings - panch kosha (annanay, pranmay, manomay, vigyanmay and anandmay), five gyanendriya (eye, ear, nose, tongue, skin), five karmendriya (mouth, feet, hands, anus, genitals), etc are part of the compartment called Jad, the prakriti. They are lifeless without Chaitanya. They are instruments and perform only they are getting life from the Chaitanya. So if you waste time in searching of these instruments' making, functioning, using, etc, you will waste time like me.

It is better to leave the Jad and dive straight into the Ocean of Chaitanya with only two teachings: sarvam khalu idam brahma(Ch.up.3.14.1) and mam ekam sharanam vraja (Gita, Ch18, Verse 66):. If you see the lights of God in all eyes in all creatures, if you see him in Sun, Moon, Rivers, Mountains, in the Universe then only act left for you to just surrender to him, mam ekam sharanam vraj.